—We study the topology of the Megaparsec Cosmic Web on the basis of the Alpha Shapes of the galaxy distribution. The simplicial complexes of the alpha shapes are used to determin...
Rien van de Weygaert, Erwin Platen, Gert Vegter, B...
This paper presents an improvement of the classical Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) approach, for dealing with local representations of image objects. NMF, when applied to...
Recently, the bag-of-words (BOW) based image representation is getting popular in object categorization. However, there is no available visual vocabulary and it has to be learned. ...
Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Hanqing Lu, So...
—Texture features that are based on the local power spectrum obtained by a bank of Gabor filters are compared. The features differ in the type of nonlinear post-processing which ...
Peter Kruizinga, Nicolai Petkov, Simona E. Grigore...
We present a hierarchical generative model for object recognition that is constructed by weakly-supervised learning. A key component is a novel, adaptive patch feature whose width...